Upcoming Events

Golden Acrylics Demo With Stacy Phillips & Following Connect Event

July 26 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

DRAW Inc is excited to present live speakers and presenters on the 4th Friday of every month before the Connect event put on by our partners from the Utah Arts Alliance.

Connect is a FREE event where every artist can show their work! It’s easy! Bring up to TWO pieces of ready-to-display art. Votes are cast for your top 3 favorites at the end of the night.

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Join Golden acrylics specialist Stacy Philips for a fun and fast-paced informative educational presentation on acrylic paints and all the related products from mediums to gels and pastes!

The lecture covers information about the different types of acrylic paint formulations, pigments, and their related viscosities, as well as color theory and color reality, drying time, and health & safety. Learn how acrylics can be used as grounds for other media, such as watercolor and colored pencil or pastels and so much more. The lecture will also cover a technical review of acrylics and their varied application possibilities. Various acrylic products and techniques will be demonstrated to enrich your understanding of the medium, among these you will learn basic tips for how to extend paint to save money and how to mix paints with gels and pastes to create exciting textures. From traditional painting to contemporary and on to mixed media, acrylics are infinitely versatile.

Discover the possibilities and become inspired with how these fabulous materials and fresh new insights can be added to your own creative process. All participants will receive a free information packet, hand-painted color charts and a bag of free Golden product samples to take home!

**RSVP for this free event by clicking “Going!” above.

Our Speaker: Stacy A Phillips Biography Stacy Phillips was born in Northern California then proceeded to move with her family across the United States for the next twenty years. She landed in Utah after studying Fine Art in the North East. After graduating with a Fine Arts and Business degree from Keene State College Stacy Owned and operated the Flat Rabbit Gallery in Park City Utah for nine years. Selling the gallery to pursue her own studio practice she has been a full time working artist sense 1993. Being represented across the country she has had several solo and group gallery exhibitions in New York, Utah and California. Stacy currently lives in Salt Lake City and is the Working Artist of Utah for Golden Paints. She maintains a studio at the Poor Yorick Studio’s in South Salt Lake. She is the current Artist in Residence at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.